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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Corrado Pietro Dragone, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Corrado Pietro Dragone, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A planar optical filter consisting of two stages performing stationary imaging between an input waveguide and a set of output waveguides is characterized by reduced crosstalk and minimal loss variation in each passband. The input stage is a small waveguide grating router, connected to the output stage by a waveguide lens essentially covering the entire central zone of the input router. In one embodiment, the second stage includes two waveguide grating routers and the lens has two separate output apertures, respectively connected to these two routers. In this arrangement, 2N input channels applied to the input port are separated by the first grating into two interleaved sets of N channels each. The two sets are respectively transferred by the composite waveguide lens to the two output gratings which respectively separate the N channels of each set. In another embodiment, the output router only includes one output grating, and several stationary images are produced, at the same waveguide location, by different orders of the output grating.